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Mortality.—The total number of deaths from all causes
during the year 1872 was 540, giving a death rate of 18.2
per 1000 per annum, which compares favourably with that
of the parish generally in former years, and is lower than
that of the metropolis at large by 3.2 per 1000, the
metropolitan mortality during 1872 having been 21.4
per 1000.
Sex.—Of the total number of 540 deaths, as given above,
246 were males, and 294 females.
Ages at death.—As usual, the very young have contributed
largely to swell the mortality tables. Under one
year of age 194 deaths took place, equal to 37 per cent of
the total mortality, and between 1 and 5 years 135 deaths
are recorded, being 25 per cent of the total number. If
the total number of deaths under five years of age, viz., 339,
be treated in the same manner, it will be found that 62 per
cent were registered as so occurring.
Forty-two persons died between 60 and 80 in this
division of the Sub-district, and eight above the age of 80
years. None of these persons exceeded the age of 84 years.
Social Position.—The position occupied by the deceased,
or, in the case of women and children, by the husband
or father of the persons whose deaths are under consideration,
may be tabulated as follows—
Nobility and Gentry 7
Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. 41
Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. 43
Industrial and Labouring Class. 449
540
thus precisely five sixths of the mortality occurred in
the ranks of the operative and labouring classes.